They would start to feel better but their symptoms always returned.
Early the next morning, Jan. 6, Carnot bought one at a hardware store, brought it home and plugged it in. The alarm sounded immediately, confirming Schieffelin’s hypothesis.Stroud called 911; members of the D.C. fire department arrived within minutes. Firefighters ordered everyone out of the house until they couldthe source of the leak, which was found quickly. A clamp on the furnace had come loose and was spewing the odorless, colorless gas throughout the four-story house.
Schieffelin said his daughter called him as the fire department was arriving and later that day after everyone was back in the house. He also spoke to Stroud. “We were just glad everyone was okay,” he said.Stroud was baffled by the failure of her alarm system to warn of the exposure. She quickly discovered that her system did not include a CO detector; it had been installed a year before D.C. required them in residences. “I thought we were covered,” she said. “We weren’t.
The family has since purchased and deployed four plug-in detectors, one on each level of their home. Every time she goes into the basement storage room she eyeballs the once-faulty furnace connection.The incident left Stroud shaken, particularly when she contemplated what might have happened. One of her doctors, she said, urged her to tell her story to warn others of the danger posed by the overlooked and insidious hazard.
“I’m wondering if we’d been seen in the pre-covid era whether someone might have thought of this” sooner, Stroud said.
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